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Beauty may bag you a man - but brains will bring you more fun in the bedroom. Women blessed with “emotional intelligence” - the ability to express their feelings and read those of others - have better sex lives, research shows.

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Craigslist, the online classifieds publication much loved by users for declining to charge a fee for most of its services, issued a statement Wednesday about the closing of its “erotic sevices” section and the opening of a new “adult services” section.

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Casey Wilson responds to rude comments on the web.

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Russian concept artist Dmitry (AKA Jim Hatama) creates sun-saturated images of alien worlds and the ships that travel between them. His pictures of space ships remind me of the covers on 1960s and 70s scifi novels.

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A flawless vivid blue diamond weighing 7.03 carats sold Tuesday for a record $9.49 million, the highest price paid per carat for any gemstone at auction, Sotheby’s said.

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How much are the most powerful people in the world worth? This infographic shows the surprising billions of some of Earth’s most elite.

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The boosters of the Soyuz rocket are seen as the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft and boosters are assembled on March 23, 2009 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz is scheduled to launch the International Space Station crew of Expedition 19 and a U.S. spaceflight participant on March 26, 2009. Photographer: Bill Ingalls, NASA

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A few years back you dropped significant cash to switch over from the virus-laden world of Windows to a shiny new Mac, but over time it’s gotten slow and crufty. Let’s clean it up.

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Considered by many enthusiasts as the ultimate modern Ferrari, the limited-edition Enzo’s replacement will be a tough act to follow up for the Italian automaker. The second-generation Enzo, also named after the marque’s illustrious founder, promises to take performance – and, surprisingly, efficiency – to a new level.

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Casey Wilson responds to rude comments on the web.

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13 Useful And Free Websites To Make Your Lives Easier
a list of cool websites that are free and hopefully will make your lives easier

Women with emotional intelligence have better sex lives
Beauty may bag you a man - but brains will bring you more fun in the bedroom. Women blessed with “emotional intelligence” - the ability to express their feelings and read those of others - have better sex lives, research shows.

Illustrated: Ferrari’s 700+ hp Enzo successor!
Considered by many enthusiasts as the ultimate modern Ferrari, the limited-edition Enzo’s replacement will be a tough act to follow up for the Italian automaker. The second-generation Enzo, also named after the marque’s illustrious founder, promises to take performance – and, surprisingly, efficiency – to a new level.

DO NOT INTERRUPT ROBERT GIBBS
or you will suffer the consequences

Craigslist’s Statement About Closing Erotic Services
Craigslist, the online classifieds publication much loved by users for declining to charge a fee for most of its services, issued a statement Wednesday about the closing of its “erotic sevices” section and the opening of a new “adult services” section.

Golden Coffins: 10 of the Most Egregious CEO Perks
Running big public companies is hard work, so many execs get a little help to keep their noses to the grindstone. Here are some of the most egregious perks from the golden era of executive compensation, according to corporate governance experts.

The Shipping Docks Are Crowded With Alien Vessels [PICS]
Russian concept artist Dmitry (AKA Jim Hatama) creates sun-saturated images of alien worlds and the ships that travel between them. His pictures of space ships remind me of the covers on 1960s and 70s scifi novels.

Women ‘fight off disease better than men’
Men really do have an excuse for supposedly being wimpy about coughs and colds - their immune systems are not as strong as women’s, research suggests.

Of all the frauds that have come to light in this season of financial pain, none can match the brazen theatricality of the scam allegedly pulled off by superlawyer Marc Dreier.

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Chile’s Llaima volcano spewed lava and belched ash into the sky on Sunday, prompting the evacuation of dozens of people and renewing concerns of a major eruption in one of the world’s volcanic hotspots.

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Connecticut Huskies coach Calhoun contemplating his future
Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun has always said he would not make any decisions about his future after a tough defeat.But the disappointment of losing to the underdog Spartans, coupled with frustration over allegations that Calhoun’s program violated NCAA recruiting rules, bubbled over…

Debian get FreeBSD Kernel
Today Debian gets one step closer to really becoming ‘the universal operating system’ by adding two architectures based on the FreeBSD kernel to the unstable archive.

Raccoon bites off man’s penis after attempted rape
A RAGING raccoon has bitten off a pervert’s penis as he tried to rape the animal.

First he complimented Barack Obama’s “tan”, then he played hide and seek with the German leader. He has even annoyed the Queen of England by being too loud.

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Chile’s Llaima volcano spewed lava and belched ash into the sky on Sunday, prompting the evacuation of dozens of people and renewing concerns of a major eruption in one of the world’s volcanic hotspots.

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…the power of the cellphone (is) a one-stop music source and a symbol of working-class immigrant identity. This is no small news, considering that in the United States regional Mexican music is responsible for close to 60 percent of all Latin sales…Despite their commercial success, few norteño or banda artists, with their cowboy hats, horses

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An African Grey parrot must appear in a Florida court as part of a civil lawsuit over its rightful owner, a judge says.

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A cross between Vegas and Mississauga, Dubai is in danger of becoming a ruin-in-waiting.

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Remember the story sent by Neatorama reader Chris Whiteoak about Google Street View Car in Bradford, England, that got pulled over by the police? Well, the street view has been released for UK, and Chris noticed that the entire drama was caught on the all-seeing Google’s cam!

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Today Debian gets one step closer to really becoming ‘the universal operating system’ by adding two architectures based on the FreeBSD kernel to the unstable archive.

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Mario Has A Change Of Heart

5 Ridiculous Andy Samberg Spoof Music Videos
5 Ridiculous Andy Samberg Music Spoof Videos

Sarah Palin Adviser’s Scientology Plot to Take Over DC
In 1986, he masterminded a plan—which was never executed—for Scientology to get into the “MONEY and VOTES game” in order to “create power” for Scientology and win influence Washington, D.C.

Gdc09: New CryENGINE 3 Trailer, Screens
This extended clip makes the whole thing look a lot like Crytek’s last engine (the one Crysis ran on), doesn’t it? That’s because, superficially, it’s very similar. Remember, this is an engine that can now run across PC, 360 and PS3, not just the PC, so it’s not going to be some quantum leap beyond Crysis-type visuals.

Tesla Model S Sedan Concept: First Official Pictures, Info!!
Digg co-founder Kevin Rose has accidentally broken the embargo on the Tesla Model S Sedan concept set to be revealed in Los Angeles in mere hours on his flickr account. We’ve got the full scoop!!

The Best (and Worst) of DreamWorks Animation
From ‘Shrek’ to ‘Sinbad’, a really entertaining analysis of Dreamworks animation wins and losses.

Mario Has A Change Of Heart

Sleep and Diet: Eating to Sleep Well
Do you dream of a good night’s sleep? Try these tips tonight and learn how your diet may affect your sleep patterns.

5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Executive Bonuses
With all the recent national outrage focused on these unethical executive payouts, here are 5 things you might not know about executive bonuses.

ISPs Join RIAA’s Fight Against Piracy
Is Your ISP One of Them?

Bachmann bill would ban global currency
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has introduced legislation that would “bar the dollar from being replace by any foreign currency.

Why 3D Movies Represent Everything Wrong With Our Country
It’s not that I have any axe to grind with the third dimension itself. I appreciate its right to exist and even endorse Hollywood’s right to explore new mediums of entertainment. But I see where all of this is going. I’ve uncovered the ten year plan, and it’s stained with lowest common denominator…

With all the recent national outrage focused on these unethical executive payouts, here are 5 things you might not know about executive bonuses.

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After weeks of supportive words from the president, U.S. green-tech professionals saw something else this week: money starting to flow.The Department of Energy said last Friday that it expects to provide $535 million in loans to California start-up Solyndra, which has a novel design for rooftop solar arrays.

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Technically old news, but this was one of my favorite songs as an undergraduate physics major. You really need at least 4 years of undergraduate math to get most of the jokes, but I think that most geeks should be able to appreciate the endeavor.

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Michael Oswald is a great digital artist from California. His skills brought him on the cover of Advanced Photoshop Magazine.

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As the economy has taken even more of a nosedive, travel-shy consumers can now benefit from the deep discounts being offered by resorts and airlines, discounts so deep that you just might be tempted to pack your bags.

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John Conyers (D. MI) is trying to pass a bill that would outlaw free acess to scientific articles, making it illagal for scienists to publish outside of journals. Guess Who donated a lot of money to Rep Conyers? Yeah… Journal Publishers.

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The real problem for Dreamweaver and for its users is that the nature of the web is changing dramatically. Dynamically-generated web applications, from Amazon right down to the humble blog, all offer much more – in-built commenting, voting, RSS feeds, etc - than the best sites built on static HTML can ever hope to provide.

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Per the photographer: This was a wish granted. Ever since I was a kid I was fascinated by thunders storms and always wanted to capture this phenomenon. Finally, my wish came true. It was so loud, that I fell and lost my hearing for a minute. Later the sounds of all the car alarms was so eerie.

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The siren’s call of Las Vegas can turn a perfectly reasonable person into a helpless moron.

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Interesting question. I am wondering if there aren’t any people who haven’t discussed this lately. Probably one of the best pieces I have read on this topic.

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I set out to learn more about the search feature, which is what so many are saying will be where Twitter makes its money, and found all of my advanced theorizing led me to a pretty basic page that held … If you go to http://search.twitter.com/advanced you can literally see all of the different ways you can search

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Penny Arcade founders Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik have been officially honored in a bill passed by their home state of Washington.

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In an apparent privacy error that underscores some of the biggest problems surrounding cloud-based services, we’re hearing that Google has sent a notice to a number of users of its Document and Spreadsheets products stating that it may have inadvertently shared some of their documents with contacts who were never granted access to them.

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A confidential EU report accuses the Israeli government of using settlement expansion, house demolitions, discriminatory housing policies and the West Bank barrier as a way of “actively pursuing the illegal annexation” of East Jerusalem.

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Authorities say they arrested an escaped jail inmate trying to sneak back into the lockup with cigarettes allegedly stolen from a nearby store.

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